Don Seenu Review

Banner: RR Movie Makers    
Starring: Ravi Teja, Shriya, Anjana Sukhani, Srihari, Shiyaji Shinde, Bramhanandam, Ali
Screenplay and Direction: Gopichand Malineni  
Dialogues: Kona Venkat    
Cinematographer: Sameer Reddy    
Editor: Gautham Raju    
Lyrics: Ramajogaiah, Vanamali, Bhaskara Bhatla
Music Director: Manisharma
Producer: Venkat 

Story:

Seenu (Ravi Teja) is completely captivated by Amitabh Bachchan and aspires to become Don from his childhood. He would be awestruck and compels people to call him Don Seenu.  He elopes from his house to become a don. Later, when he grew up, he decides to join the gangster team of Machi Raju Shiyaji Shinde) and Narsing (Sri Hari) and trap their sisters. Both these rival gangs are trying to please the big boss Duggal (Mahesh Manjrekar), who resides in Dubai. The plot unveils when Ravi Teja reveals the reason why did he choose to join particularly Machi Raju and Narsing gang.

Analysis:

‘Don Seenu’ is a typical Ravi Teja mass entertainer and fans might take pleasure in watching Ravi Teja’s performance.  However, debutant Gopichand Malineni failed to maintain the same cadence and tempo right through, particularly the second half.  Gopichand Malineni has accentuated on entertainment part rather making the story a gripping one.

Ravi Teja is at his usual best giving a wonderful performance - but the problem here is that as the film progresses, the script loses its weight and the focus has been deviated. It is a common sight in Telugu cinema that you cast comedian characters precisely for the purpose of entertainment- which means the story lacks depth in the fist.  In fact, one could witness several hilarious scenes depicted in Ravi Teja earlier movies like ‘Dubai Seenu’ and ‘Kick’.

Gopichand Malineni comes up with a very good and interesting subject line – casting Ravi Teja to become a don. But the script might not be the best when it comes to the padding as the remaining characters turn out to be a just for mere appearance. Perhaps, Gopichand Malineni should have gone ahead with introducing Ravi Teja in a commercial don format. The director surely must have done some homework to tailor and script and dialogues to suit Ravi Teja, but in this process, he overlooked the significant aspect of script.

‘Don Seenu’ is yet another Telugu movie where the climax looks dramatized and cinematic – another negative shade for the movie. But Ravi Teja has at least shown the intent to try and do something different, but this might not be the script.



Performances:
Ravi Teja just gets better film by film, but it’s important he chooses a good script. His dialogue delivery is good and body language is excellent. In fact he at times pretty well imitated Amitabh Bachchan. But it’s time for him to come out of that commercial masala format and try something offbeat.

Shriya Saran – This is her come back film in Telugu movies and she has done reasonably well and so as debutant Anjana Sukhani.

Srihari delivers the usual Telangana accent and Shiyaji Shinde continues the same hilarious villain like he did in NTR ‘Kantri’.  Mahesh Manjrekar’s role is no different from ‘Adhurs’ – as in the end he becomes more a comic character.

Ali has done well, while Brahmanandam's comedy is routine

‘Don Seenu’ does not offer anything different and new except for the same usual Ravi Teja antics.